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Our Vision: Middle Church is a multicultural, multiethnic, intergenerational movement of Spirit and justice, powered by fierce, revolutionary Love, with room for all. Following in the Way of Jesus’ radical love, and inspired by the prophets, Middle Church is called by God to do a bold new thing on the earth. We aim to heal souls and the world by dismantling racist, classist, sexist, ethnocentrist, ableist, cisheterosexist, and other systems of oppression.
Because our God is still speaking in many languages, we work in interreligious partnerships to uproot injustice, eradicate poverty, care for the brokenhearted, nurture our planet, and build the Reign of God on earth. This activism is fueled by our faith; our faith is expressed in art; our art is an active prayer connecting us with the Holy Spirit. Middle Church affirms the transformative power of moral imagination, reclaiming and reframing Christianity inside our walls, on the street, and in virtual spaces around the globe.
Skills Required: We seek an experienced clergy, a passionate, compassionate, and organized team player, someone who can help our clergy team hold operations and care so the Senior Minister in Charge can engage the congregation and the community in the raising of a new center for our movement for love and justice. The successful candidate will have at least five years of ministry or non-profit experience creating and managing budgets, supervising a team, and raising funds in a culturally and ethnically diverse context.
The Minister for Operations and Resource Development manages our human, financial, and physical resources. As our “clients” are our congregation, this includes deepening relationships through a robust system of one-on-one care (which is in, effect, customer service); creating plans to steward and grow resources; and supervising the staff of the Community Center in order to increase revenue and widen our impact in the public square. This executive will be able to, in collaboration with the Executive team, mobilize staff and congregants to enact six overarching strategies for success: attract friends, retain members, nurture spirits, deploy activists, develop partnerships, and grow leaders ready to heal souls and the world.
Employment: Full-time salaried, exempt employee with benefits. Salary commensurate with experience. Usual schedule 40–44 hours per week. Middle Collegiate Church is an equal opportunity employer.
Supervisor: Senior Minister in Charge
Key Responsibilities:
The Minister for Operations and Resource Development is on the Executive Management Team which creates and executes a comprehensive vision for ministry and programs at Middle Church, including worship, education, outreach, stewardship, justice, whole-life programs, and membership growth at Middle Church.
Care and Stewardship
- Is responsible to enlist staff and laity in the Stewardship and volunteer functions at Middle Church.
- Builds and executes a comprehensive care and visitation program that helps grow a just and generous congregation.
- Liaises with the Director of Development and the Senior Minister on the Middle Rising Campaign to rebuild a center of love, justice and the arts for Middle Church.
- Responds first to grief, death and dying, building relationships of care that lead to increased engagement with ministry; creates the on-call schedule.
- Teaches classes and holds small groups that build relationships with congregants and community.
- Preaches and leads worship as scheduled.
- Spearheads the development of a midweek worshipful experience to increase congregational engagement.
- Supervises care and stewardship data base
- Supports deacons and deacons fund
- Generates and executes campaigns that successfully raises the annual operating budget.
- Builds relationships with funders; researches and writes grants
- Staffs the Stewardship/Partnership team and supervises any consultants.
- Ensures website information, social media, bulletin, and newsletter information accurately reflect stewardship campaigns.
Operations
- Is responsible for oversight of the physical assets of Middle Church
- Supervises the Operations Team, which includes the Director of Operations and Data Management, any Community Center staff, engineers and security.
- Collaborates with Collegiate Church Operations Team, the Senior Minister, and Church Master (Board) to create a comprehensive schedule of maintenance work for the sanctuary, church house, and parsonage.
- Ensures we are insured, and appropriately attending to city and corporate policies.
- Grows the Middle Church Community Center.
- Develops the Freedom School for Children and Youth based on the Freedom School model of the Southern Freedom Movement.
- Supervises Director of Freedom School
- Leverages the physical plant at Middle Church for fundraising, including co-workspace, film and television shoots, weddings, concerts, etc.
- Achieves an annual revenue target through space rentals, community partnerships, film-shoots, weddings, bookings, and workspace rentals.
- Liaises with local partners—non-profits, government, police and community board, congregations, etc.—to create new shared programming in the community center at Middle Church.
- Partners with Executive team in conferences and trainings.
Finance
- Collaborates with Senior Minister and Board on the creation and management of the operating budget.
- Supervises the bookkeeping function and lay-leadership involved in counting/banking.
- Ensures timely reports are generated for the Board and corporation.
- Monitors the corporate appropriation
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and scope of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, and responsibilities required.
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule:
- Weekend availability
Experience:
- Ministry: 5 years (Preferred)
- Operations management: 5 years (Preferred)
- Financial acumen: 5 years (Preferred)
Work Location: One location